Aggressive behaviours in dementia encompass a range of verbal and physical actions that arise from underlying cognitive decline, unmet needs, environmental stressors and neuropsychiatric changes.

New help for dealing with aggression in people with dementia Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, wander away from home, ...

Hazardous drinking at baseline was associated with neglect and psychologically aggressive behaviors across 21 days. Daily diaries of drinking and mistreatment showed that instances of neglect and ...

Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, engage in other inappropriate or repetitive behaviors, or refuse to let caregivers ...

Immigrants living with dementia were more likely to present with agitation and aggression compared with their non-immigrant counterparts, a new study has found. Immigrants living with dementia were ...

Radiographers have called for more to be done to support patients with dementia while having scans and tests.

You pass them by all the time: some fancy, some more modest, buildings dotting cities, suburbs, and rural areas. They have names that evoke tranquility, luxury, or at least competent care. They are ...

Immigrants living with dementia were more likely to present with agitation and aggression compared with their non-immigrant counterparts, a new study by Edith Cowan University (ECU) in collaboration ...

Three years after a police officer fatally tasered a 95-year-old aged care resident, an inquest will examine the care of ...

An 88-year-old woman was killed by a fellow dementia patient who thought she was an intruder.